It is now 2 years since I first put the current pureseal sample in the water. For those that have recently joined Pureseal is a new kind of antifoul more like a clear silicon paint with no metal in it that inhibits growth because it is slippery rather than because the grow is repulsed by […]
Believe it or not, it is the start of another season. These 3 month slabs seem to be flying by. At the start of each season I check out the sample plate with Pureseal on hanging under the pier in front of where we live. I got quite a shock when I lifted it this […]
Today we cut a cardboard stencil to ensure I had the correct size of the floor and then once I had trimmed it here and there I had my size and I transferred its shape to a piece of ply and cut it out. Sam and his sons helped again, and the youngest came up […]
I had a light duties day today, the beam is still curing so I cant do much with it. I did remove some of the peel ply to see how it came out, I am quite happy. So I glued some duracore panels ready to strip them for planking, I did a little more work […]
Having recovered from the near disaster (see last post in August) I put it behind me and got on with the job today. But first, regular readers will know that at the start of each season I report on the PureSeal test. I have good news. The second test sample is still performing properly. I […]
Last month I prematurely raised the Pure Seal sample a month early. I hinted that the test plate looked pretty good. It does in fact look great. I think this formula is working. To temper my enthusiasm I have to add that it is still only 6 months in the water (from 1st December 06). […]
Regular readers will know that I have been testing some sample plates of a new type of single application antifoul called PureSeal. The idea being that this material is slippery which helps the hull move through the water giving better speed and fuel economy. But its antifoul property is that, being so slippery nothing can […]
As I said I would give the PureSeal another test with the new sample and see how the new “improved” formula holds up. Unless there was a glaring mistake in the make up of the previous formula that this new one addresses I am not going to be as hopeful as I have been in […]
The last hull panels to tape were between bulkheads 1 and 2 (there is still one panel to to between 0 and 1 that I did as I attached the panels). I managed to tape this last panel today. I could have started on the bulkhead tapes today also but I am feeling a little […]